While the deaths were clustered in the Tenderloin and SoMa, the tragedies were not limited to those neighborhoods. Others died in public spaces - sidewalks, parks, alleyways. Many people died inside homes, their bodies not discovered for hours or even days. Seeking to understand more about the epidemic, The Chronicle obtained data revealing the location of every fatal overdose in 2020 between January and August. The number of overdose deaths has been ticking up the past few years, but 2020 has been far worse than many could have predicted. The painkiller fentanyl - which can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine - seeped further into the city's drug supply, and the pandemic isolated people who often rely on others to help save them if they overdose. San Francisco’s opioid crisis exploded this year, killing people at staggering rates.
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